Description

Syntax

Required. String expression that
is the interval you want to use to calculate the differences between
date1 and date2. See Settings section for values.

date1, date2

Required. Date expressions. Two
dates you want to use in the calculation.

firstdayof week

Optional. Constant that specifies
the day of the week. If not specified, Sunday is assumed. See Settings section
for values.

firstweekofyear

Optional. Constant that specifies
the first week of the year. If not specified, the first week is assumed to
be the week in which January 1 occurs. See Settings section for values.

Settings

The interval argument can have the following values:

Setting

Description

yyyy

Year, but this does not appear
to return the actual number of years between two dates.
It only subtracts the years and fails to account for the months and days.
This function correctly finds the number of years between two dates:

Remarks

You can use the DateDiff function to determine how many specified
time intervals exist between two dates. For example, you might use
DateDiff to calculate the number of days between two dates, or the
number of weeks between today and the end of the year.

To calculate the number of days between date1 and date2, you
can use either Day of year ("y") or Day ("d"). When interval is Weekday
("w"), DateDiff returns the number of weeks between the two dates.
If date1 falls on a Monday, DateDiff counts the number of Mondays
until date2. It counts date2 but not date1. If
interval is Week ("ww"), however, the DateDiff function returns
the number of calendar weeks between the two dates. It counts the number
of Sundays between date1 and date2. DateDiff counts
date2 if it falls on a Sunday; but it doesn't count date1,
even if it does fall on a Sunday.

If date1 refers to a later point in time than date2, the
DateDiff function returns a negative number.

The firstdayofweek argument affects calculations that use the "w"
and "ww" interval symbols.

If date1 or date2 is a date literal, the specified year becomes
a permanent part of that date. However, if date1 or date2 is
enclosed in quotation marks (" "), and you omit the year, the current year
is inserted in your code each time the date1 or date2 expression
is evaluated. This makes it possible to write code that can be used in different
years.

When comparing December 31 to January 1 of the immediately succeeding year,
DateDiff for Year ("yyyy") returns 1 even though only a day has elapsed.

I am setting a Default Value in Microsoft Access to =DateDiff("d",[Strike
Date],[Purchase Date]) where Strike Date & Purchase Date are Field names
in the table. I get an Access error message "could not find field 'Strike
Date'."

Flak DiNenno of Guardian Life Insurance Company replies: J-
I believe this is because since Access 97, you can't update/reference default value/data in a field from another field in that table. Not sure if it works in referencing fields in another table?
The work-around would be something like this.
1. Create 3 fields in your table, for:
a. [Strike Date]
b. [Purchase Date]
c. 'DateDifference' - the difference between a & b (where the DateDiff result will be stored)
2. Place bound controls on your form for all 3 fields
3. Set the AfterUpdate events for both the [Strike Date] & [Purchase Date] to run a procedure and place the following code in that procedure:
DateDifference=DateDiff("d",[Strike Date],[Purchase Date])
Hope that helps.
-Flak+

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